Best 435 quotes in «excuse quotes» category

Indians, of course, have no "theology," and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.

Indifference to all the refinements of life--it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology.

Injuries are injuries, everybody has them. You play with it. I don't make excuses.

Insanity has excuses; wickedness has not.

In volleyball there are many reasons for errors but not a single excuse.

I saw the government really using the excuse of a weak economy and a financial crisis to create more government and to push onto the American entrepreneurial society more and more restraints and government activity.

Iorek Byrnison: Can is not the same as must. Lyra Silvertongue: But if you must and you can, then there's no excuse.

I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse.

Islam is not an excuse for thwarting democracy.

I suggest that you become obsessed about the things you want; otherwise, you are going to spend a lifetime being obsessed with making up excuses as to why you didn’t get the life you wanted.

I swear it on Solin’s life. (Arik) Uh, excuse me? (Solin) I would, but there’s truly no excuse for you. (Arik)

It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke.

I tried--I swear I tried. But you didn't want to hear what I was saying, and I used that as an excuse to let it go on.

It is quite wrong for party conferences to be used as an excuse for the Commons not to sit. Conferences could be held at weekends.

I think it's time for the Prime Minister to stop making excuses and to start governing.

I think there's almost nothing I can't excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.

It is easier to move from failure to success in from excuses to success.

It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other.

It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

It's amazing as women how many excuses we make when a guy doesn't call or text. It's unbelievable.

It was calling me, that button," he offered as his excuse. "I couldn't resist." -MULCH DIGGUMS ON A HIGHLY PRESS-ABLE BUTTON-

I've become really comfortable with my sexuality and making no excuses for it anymore.

I've always felt that feminism was just an excuse for ugly women to march.

I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.

I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there's no excuse for that. It's not something I'll let happen to me again.

I was never NOT confident about doing scenes without my shirt - and now I'll find any excuse to take my shirt off!

I will not take "but" for an answer.

I will not quarrel with a slight mistake, Such as our nature's frailty may excuse.

Jesus said go and make disciples, but so often we just sit and make excuses

I would like to take revenge but I'm not looking for excuses for having lost to her

Living in England has no such excuse: These are my customs and establishments.

Lack of orders is no excuse for inaction.

Leadership Principle: As hunger increases, excuses decrease.

Left alone with the dial tone...excuse me, operator, why is no one listening?

Life is what you make of it. Don't make excuses - make it happen.

Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.

Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.

Losses are inevitable, but excuses are optional.

Love's an excuse to get hurt and to hurt. Do you like to hurt? I do, I do then hurt me.

Love's an excuse to get hurt.

Make excuses to train not excuses not to train!

Making excuses and not trying because I was scared were my go-to reactions. Nothing was going to change in my life unless I did something about it.

Make time, not excuses.

Making excuses is not going to get me any closer to my goals.

Make excuses to work out. Go for walks and enjoy scenery. You'd be surprised how many calories you can burn during the day if you just make an effort and become more aware. Also remember to start slow, don't go into it too hard if you are just starting.

Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.

More often than not, the only thing between you and your dream is a rational excuse.

McCain might have suffered hardships in his life, but what had happened to him had nothing to do with his background or his color; they were convenient excuses now. He had been a psychopath from the start.

Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.